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If pressed to do a quick take on marriage in America today, I might say something like this: Marry late in life and if need be, marry often. Americans nowadays, if they choose to marry at all, marry later in … Continue reading →

As summer approaches and schools let out, many families anticipate having more time for family activities, the salutary effect of which is typically to promote interpersonal bonding and strengthen internal ties of connection and support. But for families involved in … Continue reading →

Spousal support is certainly a fertile topic of discussion. For now, however, I would simply like to make some brief, follow-up remarks to those made in my last post, “Spousal Support: Presumptions and Duration.” In the context of discussing long term (10+ … Continue reading →

The word “permanent” in the expression “permanent spousal support” is something of a misnomer. Yes, permanent spousal support might go on for a very long time, although no specific guidance requires that it does. Definitely, permanent spousal support ends when … Continue reading →

In addressing the issue of spousal support in dissolution cases, the Court follows standard procedures. The dominant guidance comes from Family Code (FC) Section 4320, which sets forth a mandatory schema of 14 factors–including “any other factor”—that the Court must … Continue reading →

In my recent discussions of post-judgment spousal support, I have mentioned the concept of “marital standard of living,” but have not yet explained the overall importance and functioning of this concept within dissolution proceedings. Allow me, then, to do so … Continue reading →

Long term spousal support arrangements are often the result of much hard-fought bargaining, which is why I always advise parties to include in their MSA an explicit and direct statement limiting the Court’s authority, post-judgment, to modify a carefully-crafted support … Continue reading →